Archives : network optimization

Four steps to outstanding application performance in the cloud

published on 2011/06/23 by Anthony Plewes

Why has performance management become such a key issue in cloud computing? Well it's simple: there is little point in moving to a cloud solution if end users can no longer use their business-critical applications effectively. We spoke to Orange Business Services expert Jean Critcher to find out about the four key issues you need to address when looking at application performance in the cloud. ...

Four steps to outstanding application performance in the cloud

A brain for the Internet?

published on 2011/04/19 by Stewart Baines

Could a software project at Stanford University change the way that the Internet works, for the better? OpenFlow, a project developed in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley, could enable application software to tell the routers and switches underpinning the Internet what to do....

A brain for the Internet?

Blade Network Technologies: "we do business with people for whom, when the network goes down, it will cost millions of dollars!"

published on 2010/06/25 by Yann Gourvennec

the network as a business enabler On June 3rd, 2010, at the end of our press trip in the Silicon Valley, we have had the opportunity to meet with Vikram Mehta, President and CEO of Blade Network Technologies (BNT), a four year-old company dedicated to "providing the interconnect fabric" behind cloud computing to put it in the words of our host who welcomed us at BNT's headquarters in Santa Clara, Ca. What is behind this concept of "interconnect fabric" is the provision of intelligent networking and storage application connectivity for virtualised data centres. what is keeping CIOs awake at night? What......

Blade Network Technologies: "we do business with people for whom, when the network goes down, it will cost millions of dollars!"

Eight steps to best practice in end-to-end network optimization (pt 2)

published on 2010/04/14 by Jean Critcher

In the first part of this post I talked about the first four steps for successful end-to-end network optimization. These steps were focused on identifying the applications that meet business priorities and the KPIs that will measure the success of the network optimization project in terms of the business. The next four steps deal with the actual work that needs to be done to optimize your applications and infrastructure. Step 5: Determine the infrastructure constraintsNow that all the high-level decisions have been made, our process digs down into the IT infrastructure layers that support these business priorities. As outlined in the last......

Eight steps to best practice in end-to-end network optimization (pt 2)

Eight steps to best practice in end-to-end network optimization (pt 1)

published on 2010/04/13 by Jean Critcher

Applications are a key part of your business processes and their performance impacts directly on your bottom line. But to improve application performance, it's no longer enough to simply improve a single element of the IT infrastructure, such as the server or the network, instead you need to look to optimize all components of the IT infrastructure together. ...

Eight steps to best practice in end-to-end network optimization (pt 1)